Archaeologists used radiocarbon dating to date one mass grave to between the late 1400s ... The graves contain a representative sample of society at the time, the researchers say, allowing them ...

"We don't have high hopes to find anything more, but we want to take scientific sample from the grave and maybe the might be something that the finder missed," he said. Further analysis will be ...

"We must realize that such a mass grave represents a sample of a population within a very short period, which is extremely valuable to us. The 30 graves, as far as I know, are the largest set in ...

What did this mean? Investigators turned to the remains of the Tsar’s brother, George, and extracted a DNA sample. He also had the same distinction, which confirmed the skeleton in the mass grave was ...

The family hopes to exhume the body of Booth's brother, the actor Edwin Wilkes Booth, from a grave in Cambridge, Mass., and compare it with a sample believed to be John Wilkes Booth's.

“The only sample we (found was) there because the elders of Brevig Mission let me go back into the grave again,” Hultin said in a 1998 interview over the phone from San Francisco. “They gave ...

Paleontologists in Alberta, Canada, have unearthed over 8,000 dinosaur bones in a massive prehistoric grave known as the Pipestone Creek Bonebed, or the "River of Death." Hidden beneath the slopes of ...